Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-16

A movement is on foot to establish {
colored orphans home in Atlanta, Ga.
The lately appointed Minister tc
Liberia is reputed to be worth $40, 900.
The colored people of Bowling Green
KY, are organizing "White Gross
League. {"
Mr.. Henry Johnson, was recently
elected assessor of the second ward Of
Delaware, 0.
Mr.. Robert Waring, Of Detroit, is
salesman for the firm of Selling Bros. &
CHM, clothiers.
Miss Alice McEwen, colored, has
graduated from school of stenography
in Bloomington, III.
DR.. I. P. Tuppins, colored, was re.
Gently nominated by the Republicans Of
Findlay, o., for mayor.
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, colored, has
been appointed one of the fvejury com
missioners of Washington, D. C.
Rev. James Poindexter, colored, was
reelected to the School Board of Column
bus, Ohio, at the recent election.
Among the voters at the recent elect
ion in Kansas City, Mo-, was Wash Dale,
colored, aged 103 years. He voted tho
Republican ticket.
Rev. Henry Adams, colored, one day
last week was found dead, with gun
shot wound in his back, on the Bluffs
plantation, near Churchville, Miss.
Mr.. J. W. Smith, president of the
Elevator Publishing Company, San
Francisco, CAL, last week, won the suit
for criminal libel brought by Mr.. J. c..
Rivers.
George A. Marshall, colored, was a.
warded the Weber gold medal for the
best specimen of perspective drawing in
the New York Evening High School,
last week.
On the 4th inst, Frank Langson, the
youngest son of Hon. John M Langston,
shot John II. Ruffin in Petersburg, Va.
Ruffin has since died and young Lang
ston is in Jail. ....--...
Mr., Levi Hamilton, colored, was
chosen one of the members ofthe Board
of Health of Lima, O., and Mr.. Miles
Collins was appointed on the police
force, recently.
The Natchez Colored Building Asso-
citation, organized little more than a
year ago, has completed thirty elegant
houses, and has thirty more under pro-
cess of erection.
Tom Cowan, the manager of the hotel
in Birmingham, Ala, who refused to
allow q delegation of colored men to call
on Gen. Sherman in the hotel has been
discharged by the proprietors,
Prof. w. Q. Vance, principal of Serb
ner High School, New Albany, Ind, was
recently examined in ten Of the most
difficult of the studies taught and passed
50 out ola possible l00in each.
Charges have been preferred against
c. H. J. Taylor, the newly appointed
minister to Liberia, by John 6. JONES' a
prominent colored citizen of Chicago.
His confirmation is to be bitterly op-
posed.
The Central Tennessee College has
just received another gift from Mr..
Hugh Meharry, of Illinois. Mr.. Me-
harry has placed in the hands of the
trustees of that institution a gift of
100000
At recent meeting of the West Texas
Medical Association at San Antonio, the
application Of G.. ]. Stanes, a colored
physician, for membership, was rejected
on vote oftwelyc to forty -four. Cause,
colorphobia. o
A call for National Political Conven-
ton has been issued from indianapolis to
be held in that city June LIST, 1887. The
object of the convention is to discuss
"the Grievances of the. Negroes of the
United States.''
The following named colored men
have been appointed on the police force
of Pittsburgh, Pa: Alfred Jones,
Mathew Bell, J. H. Johnson, w. M.
Robinson, Samuel H. Brown, Scott Ran.
dolph, Andrew Terry, E. Harris.
Mrs. Annie Meads, .colored, proprie-
tress Of lunch counters in several of the
markets of Baltimore, Md, was found
dead in bed one morning recently. She
was 6S years ofage, was very business
like and had amassed a fortune of $780,.
600.
At Wyandotte, Kansas, Saturday night
April 2, David Brown, a colored singer
for a medicine peddler, dropped dead
while singing Golden Slippers on
street corner. The bursting of a blood
vessel was found to be the cause of his
death.
None of the colored employees in the
Attornev-Gener Departm atWash
ington have been removed, owing, it il
said, to the influence ofAttorney-G ener
al Garland, who has shown specia
friendship to the colored men in his de.
partment.
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